sexta-feira, abril 08, 2016

[International]Change In Olympic Regulations Offers New Opportunies For Transgender Athletes
When the Olympics kick off in Rio de Janeiro this August, thousands of athletes will put years of training to use in hopes of bringing home a medal. Now, due to an issue brought into the limelight by former Olympian Caitlyn Jenner, a change in Olympic legislation will diversify the field of competitors even more.

[USA]Seven Other States Are Considering Restricting Bathrooms For Transgender People
Two weeks ago, North Carolina passed a law that requires schools and public agencies to have gender-segregated bathrooms and to prevent people from using a bathroom that doesn’t correspond to their biological sex. Since then, PayPal has canceled plans to build a new operations center in Charlotte, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has banned state employees from making nonessential work trips to North Carolina, and composer Stephen Schwartz has announced that he will not allow his musicals to be performed in the state.

[USA]Palm Center concerned by Pentagon delay on transgender ban
The Palm Center, an independent research center publishing state-of-the-art scholarship on transgender personnel in the military, questioned today whether the Pentagon's promised six-month review of its transgender service ban is on track. Last July, Defense Secretary Ashton B. Carter created a working group to study overturning the ban, calling the current discriminatory policy "outdated, confusing [and] inconsistent," and saying that it "distracts commanders from our core missions." He promised that the review would be completed in six months and would proceed "with the presumption that transgender persons can serve openly… unless and except where objective, practical impediments are identified."

[CA, USA]California considering all gender bathroom bill
The California Assembly Business and Professions Committee passed a bill to mandate "all gender" bathroom signs on all public, single-occupancy bathrooms, sending the bill, AB 1732 on to the Assembly Appropriations Committee.

[PA, USA]Wolf to issue LGBT anti-discrimination order
Gov. Tom Wolf said he will issue an executive order today banning discrimination based on sexual orientation, general expression and identity in executive branch offices and a selection of firms and organizations receiving direct state contracts and grants.